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Provedor de dados: | 103
País: | Brazil
Título: | Architectural changes in larval leaf shelters of Noctuana haematospila (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) between host plant species with different leaf thicknesses
Autores: | Greeney,Harold F.; Walla,Thomas R.; Lynch,Ryan L.
Data: | 2010-02-01
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Behavior; Caterpillar; Ecuador; Rubus; Skipper.
Resumo: | Insect-food-plant associations have been shown to be influenced by the chemical, physical and nutritional characteristics of plants. We suggest that among insect larvae that use leaf material to build shelters, food-plant use may be constrained by differences in host leaf structure, illuminating a rarely investigated aspect of insect-plant interactions. To explore the potential effects of leaf structure on shelter building behavior in a Neotropical skipper butterfly, we investigated shelter building patterns on two congeneric food-plants that varied in leaf thickness. Shelter architecture varied significantly between hosts, with thicker leaves requiring longer cuts to construct shelters. The relationship between shelter building behavior and leaf structure is discussed in relation to selection pressures on larval shelters and food-plant choice.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702010000100010
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1984-46702010000100010
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Zoologia (Curitiba)  v.27 n.1 2010
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess